Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 351

Price Realized: $ 6,500
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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
(MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1805.) Diario de Mexico. 12 volumes (volumes I-XII complete) including issues #1 to #1732, most of them 4 pages, complete with title pages, indexes and subscriber lists. 4to, matched modern ¼ calf in varying heights; minor foxing, intermittent minor dampstaining; modern private library bookplates on front pastedowns. México: Mariano José de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1 October 1805 to 29 June 1810
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The first daily newspaper in Mexico, founded by independence advocate Carlos Bustamante. It continued publication through 1817. "Rare, even in Mexico, as in the troubles and revolutions that supervened, many of the copies were destroyed"--Sabin 48424.

This set contains at least 35 supplements, plus two additional inserted 2-page handbills: "Prospecto del Diario Mercantil de Veracruz" (most of it published in Medina, Veracruz pages 16-18) bound within 10 June 1807 issue; and "Convite a una tragedia Americana" bound in after the 16 March 1808 issue. Medina, Mexico 9784; Palau 71882.